The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

- Chanakya

Awareness

"इतना काम करिये की काम भी आप का काम देखकर थक जाय।"

- Chanakya

Hard Work

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."

- Chanakya

Success

"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"

- Chanakya

Health

"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."

- Chanakya

Persistence

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"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

Determination

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

Determination

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

Determination

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination